The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-23
PAGAN BOB,
Ills Closing Remarks ut tho Blasphem

t'on ~ Issue IN THIS trial" Col, lngersoll
said when court reassembled with an at.
tendance so'much larger than chat Of tho
morning that the overflow packed the
halls and stairwsys. ''is whether in New
jersey a man has right to a free expires.
sion OF honest thought" For the speak
er's part he would not wish to live In A
world in which he could not express his
honest opinion. He denied tho right Of
any number Of men to paddock tho lips of
another, to make a tongue convict. A
man had right to work with his hands-
to SOW seed, to gather the harvest. Then
why might he not cultivate his brain, and
having cultivated that field communicate
his opinions? It WAS question now Of
intellectual liberty. Without that men
were but painted clay. Here are some OF
Col. lngefsolps expressions aa he followed
out the thought above indicated:
I'VE are compelled to think as we do.
When We look out on the fields, on the
woods, into the solemn night-these
things produce thoughts, and do 1t neces-
sarily. The blood pursues it's accustomed
course in the brain in spite OF you, the
eyes see in spite Of you, the ears hear in
spite OF you, and you cannot stop the
brain from thinking. 7la-
"For 1900 years people have tried to
persuade others to think their way. Did
they succeed No, because they applied
brute force, which is not argument, No
orthodox church exists that hasn't tried
to make all think alike. Yet every one OF
them at the start hes advocated free speech.
John Calvin began his great movement
! by writing in France book on religious
federation. But when he got power he
burned Survetus at the stake for differing
with him on question that neither Of
them knew anything abort. That is the
record Vi u.Il' fv.gIuus minority when it
becomes rnsjority.
"What q stupid world this would be If
everybody said yes to everything every.
body else said. The one thing Supremacy
important il human liberty. l am be.
lever in what call intellectual hospital
ity. II a good idea comes to the dwelling
OF my brain I bid 1t stay. If it is bad !
| want it to make room for another. l
wont i'll treat 1t, but its room is better
than its company.
| AoA Low ACopJ toIAaIe, uuL IItEDy'
terlanlsm. l don't hate man that has
rheumatism, but rheumatism that has a
man. $500
"What is blasphemy? That depends on
where you are. Suppose man from Nor.
ristown should 70 to Turkey and tell the
people there that the Koran is false, that
Mohammed was no prophet, that the
angel Gabriel does not measure 100 leagues
between the eyes. The Turks would call
him blssphemer and put him in Jail.
what would the Morriatown people say
Look at those heather wretches, they
need more missionaries H E
Turn the case about. Suppose Turk
came to Morristown and preached that the
Koran was the inspired book and Mohem.
med the real prophet. Ii the people OF
Morrlatown put that man in jail, I Say
they need more missionaries.
| "Here Is man who came here with O
little pamphlet. II you had let him alone
the diameter Of his echo would have been
100 or 200 feet. Your course has made his
mission more discussed than anything else
could have done. Fifty millions of people
will hear Of this trial. You may shut him
up in Jail, but you can't jail his argument
II you could only imprison thought in
tellec,ual tyranny could succeed.n = -
Col. 1ngersoll took up the statute GOV.
erning such case, It is as folIows,f =
"1t any person shall w,,lIullv blosnhcmo ,no
holy name OF God BY denying. cuning, or con on
amn nc rsrroSehing his being Or Providence.
cht or e Hoiy Ghost or he chrisan Sfsns
or the holy Word u God-thnt Is, tho canoaicai
scriptures contained in the books OF the Old or
pr them or any Of ,bsa to- coniempt or II
then every person SO offending lhall. on conviction
aneeol, W puasnea py me hos exceeding sGo
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